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2.02 economic goods
objective 2.02
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capital goods | Manufactures or constructed items that are used in the production of goods and services |
| consumer goods and services | Products produced for personal consumption |
| consumers | people who use goods and services the economic process or activity of using goods and services |
| convenience products | Consumer goods and services purchased fast |
| Demand | The quantity of a good or service that buyers are ready to buy at a given price at a particular time |
| distribution | The economic process or activity by which income is divided among resource owners and producers |
| economic goods | physical objects that are useful scarce and transferable |
| economic resources | The human and natraul resources and capital goods used to produce goods and services |
| economic services | productive acts that are useful scarce and transferable |
| economic want | a desire for something that can only be satisfied by spending money |
| economics | the study of how to meet unlimited competing wants with limited resources |
| elastic demand | A form of demand for products in which changes in price correspond to changes in demand |
| elasticity | An indication of how changes in price will affect changes in the amounts demanded and supplied |
| equilibrium | the point at which the quanity demanded |
| equipment | industrial goods used in the operation of a business but not used in the actual production |
| excess demand | the situation that exists when demand is greater then supply |
| excess supply | the situation that exists when supply is greater then demand |
| exchange | the economic process of trading one good/service for another |
| factors of production | productive resources human and natural resources and capitol goods |
| goods |